  Nolan CaudillLead Software EngineerAt Newfangled, I build the software that our industrious developers use to build our client's websites. This involves a lot of staring at dark screens, drinking too much caffeine, and occasionally typing,
I've been programming since I was 12, first moving a pixelated circle across the screen using QBasic and creating my first website not too long after. My software interests also include exotic programming languages and compilers and I think that JavaScript is a swell language. I bleed Carolina blue, graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006 with a degree in computer science. I joined the company in June 2007. Blog Posts| 4 |  |
Chris passed along an article this morning called 10 Proposals for Fixing the E-Mail Glut" by Nick Bilton and it made me think about the issues I have with email in the workplace.
For me, email is like what Winston Churchill said about democracy, "democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Email, for me, is the worst form of communication, except for all the others...  | 3 | |
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third-party JavaScript (which is code usually loaded from a domain on
another server) can often do bad things to your pages' performance.
Putting JavaScript on a page blocks, which in software-speak
means that nothing else can happen while it is loading and executing.
The reason for this is that JavaScript can change the page after it
executes which means that the browser needs to wait until the code is
done executing before it go on to the next thing. Why is this a problem? | 1 | |
The Internet is a noisy place, with Twitter updates constantly
streaming and blogs spewing out second-hand knowledge, making it
difficult to find sources that are both credible and consistently good.
Here are a few blogs that I follow that keep me informed on what's going on and what's next in Web technology. 
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